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Wednesday, January 05, 2011

COTE d'Ivoire's Presidential Battle: Ouattara v/s Gbagbo

The people of Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) held their democratic election run-off on November 28th 2010. Unfortunately, this West African country has witnessed what was witnessed in Kenya during the 2007/2008 elections where the now defunct electoral body, by design or default, failed to declare who between the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki and the present Prime minister won the elections. Kenya witnessed unprecedented chaos and civil strife that resulted in over a thousand deaths. The International Criminal Court, let by its 'stardom-hungry' prosecutor has been trying to apportion blame on a few individuals 'assumed' to have played a key role in the resultant mayhem. A similar situation was replayed in Zimbabawe a year after. Three years after, Cote d'Ivore is now dancing the same tune wherein the electoral body gave an 8th percentage victory to Alassane Ouattara over the incumbent president Laurent Gbagbo. Laurent Gbagbo has refused to cede office to Ouattara in spite of pressure and mediation efforts by the international community.
As the only world-wide personality reading wizard (www.personalityreading.com) and having scanned the natural personality of Gbagbo, I find him such an adamant and recalcitrant persona who may not easily hand-over power. The team of mediators should be wary of this attribute whilst negotiating for a peaceful resolution of the stalemate. What Gbagbo and the soldiers behind his refusal to accept the results of the elections should know is that naturally, Ouattara is capable of defeating him in most contests including running of a country. In other words, I personally thank the people of Ivory Coats for choosing the most suitable candidate. As presidential material, I give Ouattara 85% while Gbagbo has 74%. My urge is that they should not accept power sharing deals as it happened in Kenya and Zimbabwe since Ouattara is such an elegant personality that Cote d'Ivoire should not be denied.